Trains (and Tower)

Since I'm so far behind on my posting, I will, as usual, write what I'm doing right now before I go about retelling the past. So, right now, I'm on ferry to Seattle from BainBridge Island after hitchiking for a few hours. As for the past:

On my last day in Cali, I got to the Amtrak train station to board the Coast StarLiner (Huge trains that goes from San Jose to Seattle in 26 hours). The train was an hour late (how typical of trains) and in the mean time I met a nice girl named Mila who helped me through a lot of boring hours on the trip.

The first 8 hours of the trip, which started at aroudn 10pm, were pretty much in complete darkness and there wasn't really anything to do except sleep and talk (and not much talk after everyone's gone to sleep). Naturally sleep was quite awful and scarce, but that's just how I roll nowadays.

After I woke up for the last time (of many) and saw it was finally light out, I started taking picture and admiring the view. MAN! there were awesome views. Soon after breakfast was served. Over breakfast, I got seated with a bunch of random people and everyone told his story of how he got to be on the train. The same thing, pretty much, happened for every meal. The food was nice and it was really fun passing the trip just by talking to a lot of random people.

I met David, Ashley and Havier at the station and they immediatly took me to a Jazz & Swing bar for a few beers (Teh life!). After that we went up the space needle and got a few pictures of racoons. Then David and I drove all the way back to Port Angeles where I spent my next ... 11 days, having an awesome time!

Okay, the ferry's docking so it's time to go.

Salutations,

Nathan

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They Come in Gallons?

So, after a long long time without update I decided I should spend some of my free time (woohoo for actually having free time) to update the blog a bit, especially about the fun stuff that happened.

So, on my last day in California I woke up, starved as hell, and played some DotA, Woke Ariel (That's the other Israeli Couch Surfer staying with me) up and went out to catch the LightRail to Downtown San Jose.

Throughout the time I was staying in Cali, a few people from the Bay Area sent me SMSs about them wanting to meet me, but I was either too lazy, lame or busy to actually meet with them. So this time, I sent them all messages telling them that I'm going to SJ and asking them if they can meet. At first all of them replied that they're too busy and me and Ariel kinda accepted the fact that we're just going to wander aimlessly around DTSJ.

A few minutes after we boarded the LightRail, thought, I got a message from Matthew Williams that he actually got some time off work and he's coming to meet up with us. YAY!

Basically Matt and his lovely gf Caitlyn took us to some crazy restaurant that served the hottest wings in the entire universe (They were painfully hot). I could only eat two wings before giving up (Ariel gave up after a single bite). Matt and Caitlyn were awesome and bought us a Gallon (1 US gallon = 3.78541178 liters) of beer which made us quite tipsy for the rest of the day. After eating tons of food, drinking lots of beer and talking about all kinds of stuff, Matt had to drop us off back in SJ and go back to work.

They dropped us off at the SJ City College Library (or something) and we started strolling about and taking pictures. Man these colleges looks awesome. Also, a lady came up to us and started talking about how she was in a picture we took (she was in the background) and starting asking us all sorts of weird questions. For some reason it felt to me like she was drunk or something (or maybe that was because I was somewhat drunk at that point :P )

After that we went back, I packed my stuff and set out to the Train station to catch my 25hr train to Seattle.

More about the Train ride in the next post.

Cheers,

Nathan

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